" pan "

[Noun]  | "pan" | \ ˈpan \

1: a usually broad, shallow, and open container for domestic use (as for cooking)

2: any of various similar usually metal receptacles: such as

3: the hollow part of the lock in a firelock or flintlock gun that receives the priming

Origin: before 12th century ;

 Middle English panne, from Old English (akin to Old High German phanna pan), from Latin patina, from Greek patanē;

[Noun]  | "pan" | \ ˈpän \

1: a betel leaf

2: a masticatory of betel nut, mineral lime, and pan

Origin: 1598 ;

 Hindi & Urdu pān, from Sanskrit parṇa wing, leaf {mat|fern|};

[Noun]  | "pan" | \ ˈpan \

1: the process of panning a movie or video camera

2: a shot in which the camera is panned

Origin: circa 1922 ;

 Short for panorama;

[Noun]  | "Pan" | \ ˈpan \

1: a Greek god of pastures, flocks, and shepherds usually represented as having the legs, horns, and ears of a goat

Origin: 14th century ;

 Latin, from Greek;

[Noun]  | "Pan-Af*ri*can*ism" | \ ˌpan-ˈa-fri-kə-ˌni-zəm \

1: a movement for the political union of all the African nations

Origin: 1930 ;

[Verb]  | "pan" 

1: to wash in a pan for the purpose of separating heavy particles

2: to separate (a substance, such as gold) by panning

3: to place in a pan

Origin: 1832 ;

[Verb]  | "pan" | \ ˈpan \

1: to rotate (a camera, such as a movie camera) so as to keep an object in the picture or secure a panoramic effect

2: to pan a movie or video camera

3: to undergo panning

Origin: 1913 ;

[Abbreviation]  | "Pan" 

1: Panama

[Abbreviation]  | "PAN" 

1: peroxyacetyl nitrate

[Combining form]  | "pan-" 

1: all : completely

2: involving all of a (specified) group or region

3: advocating or involving the union of a (specified) group

Origin: 

 Greek, from pan, neuter of pant-, pas all, every; akin to Tocharian B pont- all;

[Noun]  | "pan" 

[Verb]  | "pan" 

[Verb]  | "pan out"